Jon Stewart: Trump's 2024 win 'feels different'
“The Daily Show” host Jon Stewart said President-elect Trump’s win this week feels different than when he won in 2016, during his latest podcast episode of “The Weekly Show.”
“This feels different, because it is a democratic victory,” he said on the episode that aired Friday. “I feel like we were prepared for all scenarios and in each one of those scenarios it was, how is Donald Trump going to finagle his way back into the [White House]? How is he going to use undemocratic principles? What measure of intimidation and underhanded [shenanigans] will this man use to worm his way back into the Oval Office?
"And it turned out he used our electoral system as it is designed," he added. "And in that moment, I thought, well, f‑‑‑, I’m not sure we have a team of lawyers for that.”
Trump won his presidential campaign with 312 electoral votes and more then 75 million votes, according to Decision Desk HQ/The Hill. He is the first Republican presidential candidate to win the popular vote since George W. Bush in 2004.
“F‑‑‑ us, f‑‑‑ me, I was wrong, will continue to be wrong,” Stewart said on the podcast.
Trump’s decisive victory over Vice President Harris has led to larger conversations about the future of the Democratic Party and where it went wrong.
“I still believe in this country, and I still believe in individuals, and I still believe in the power of change and organization, goodness, competence. I mean, for God’s sake, the Mets made the playoffs,” Stewart said on the podcast.
During Tuesday’s edition of “The Daily Show,” Stewart reminded viewers that results aren’t everything.
He argued that in the event of a Trump victory, it would seem like the “finality of our civilization,” but in reality, Americans will “wake up tomorrow” and have to “work like hell to move the world to the place that we prefer it to be.”
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